a new law professor with an interest in regulatory policy. antonin scalia signed off as counsel. they are with us this evening. three other veterans will begin our panel presentations. henry goldberg is succeeded as the general counsel is one of the deans of american communications. dale hatfield went on to a distinguished career in academics and government. was acting director of the successor office and the commerce department. during his consulting days he worked with tom in a variety of business centers. this was the key architect of the bell system breakup and telecommunications deregulation following a highly successful career as a consulting economist. he returned to his all modern where he is not a centennial prof. of public policy and a senior fellow at the stanford institute for economic policy research. following these three presentations we will hear from global entrepreneur t om's partner. the concluding presentation will be from a professor at george mason in and one of america's post prolific scholars of telecommunications policy. he was tom's colleague during the